NFL - NEWS & NOTES

The Bengals will get instant Karma.

 

lol

THUG LIFE!!!

 

I read that they could be doing this to lower his base salary and make the suspension less costly for him. He is currently making 182,000 per week. If they reduced his salary to vet minimum and converted the rest to a signing bonus he could get his weekly pay down to 73,000 per week saving him 317,000.

 

The Bengals are ridiculous, they are rewarding a player for being an asshole.

 

NFL 2017... its on!

 

Chiefs stunned the Patriots. Alex Smith outplayed Tom Brady, and Kareem Hunt and Tyreek Hill rolled up big yardage in Kansas City’s 42-27 win.


Hunt gained 246 yards from scrimmage with three touchdowns and Hill had 138 yards from scrimmage and a touchdown as the Chiefs gained 537 yards against a defense that ranked in the top 10 last season. It was the most yards a Bill Belichick defense ever has allowed.

The Chiefs had three drives of at least 90 yards after having only one last season.

 

The Kansas City Chiefs stunned the football world with a season-opening 42-27 victory in New England, but an injury to safety Eric Berry gave the win a bittersweet feel.

Chiefs coach Andy Reid told reporters Berry potentially suffered a torn Achilles tendon and the team would know about the injury Friday after a scheduled MRI.

"I don't think it's positive," Reid said, already pivoting to talking about how Berry can assist the team by helping him coach this season.

Berry was carted off the field midway through the fourth quarter and didn't return

 

One of the recent criticisms of the NFL during its recent Ezekiel Elliott investigation/suspension was a lack of consistency, after the Cowboys running back got a six-game punishment the year after Giants kicker Josh Brown got one.

The NFL has taken a retroactive step to remedy that.


According to Adam Schefter of ESPN.com, the NFL has suspended the former Giants kicker six more games for violating its personal conduct policy, for domestic violence.

Of course, Brown’s career was probably over anyway, as he’s a kicker, and the Giants parted ways with him after last year’s one-game suspension. (Even though, you know, they signed him to a contract extension with knowledge of the allegations of abuse by his ex-wife.)

The league re-opened their investigation into Brown’s case, and will say that they found new information during that process that justified the longer suspension.

Of course, no one was going to touch a 38-year-old kicker with a domestic violence charge anyway (unless he was a really good kicker, I mean), but the more interesting question will be how it serves as any kind of factor in the Elliott case or future cases. Elliott’s waiting for a ruling from a Texas judge on a restraining order which would allow him to continue to play beyond this week.

 

There are conflicting reports about what direction was given. It has been documented and can be heard on the video that the cops where yelling for people to get out of the casino not just out from behind their cover.

Thanks but that didn't answer my question. The report is that Bennett was allegedly running and jumped over a wall. This came after he was, again allegedly, told to come out from behind a slot machine.

Put yourself in the cops shoes.....you see a large man....running and jumping over a wall. This isn't going to trigger a heightened response from you?

If I am an officer on the scene I am looking for an active shooter. Not someone who seems to be hiding from an active shooter.

An active shooter could be hiding behind a slot machine just as easily as anyone else in the building.

I have no problem with the officers having their guns out. I do have a problem with them keeping them out and detaining an unarmed man who is not resisting regardless of color.

They detained a man running from the scene. You don't 100% know a person is unarmed until you detain them and search them.


I get there are bad cops out there. And I whole heartedly agree there are racial issues at play all over the nation in regards to how police handle minorities compared to whites. I just don't see that this incident is part of that issue.

Watch the videos that are available. There are a lot of black people in the casino and leaving the casino. The police seem to be doing a good job of trying to protect those folks. Bennett's claims of being told by the cops they were gonna blow his brains out and aiming guns at his head haven't been proven via the videos I've seen.

He was detained for 10 minutes and then released when determined to not be a threat. This happens to ordinary people all the time. And blindly defended Bennett and attacking the police in this case seems a lot like jumping the gun to me.

 

Berry is done for the year in KC. Hightower escaped with a minor MCL sprain. That one looked worse than it was, might not miss any time due to the 10 days between games.

 

Saints LS Jon Dorenbos is out for the season and will need to have open heart surgery after having aortic aneurysm. The Saints are looking to rescind their trade with the Eagles since his heart murmurs were a known preexisting condition they say they were not aware of.

 

^^ Some are now saying the trade saved his life as the Saints detected this and he needed surgery, but if it was preexisting, why didn't he have surgery earlier considering this was life threatening ?

 

Heart murmers and an aortic aneurism don't necessarily go together. I had a lower aortic aneurism repaired with a heart catheter and a stint towards the end of last year. It does not require open heart surgery depending on where it's located. Even with the stint method, my activities were drastically limited.

 

Yes. I do not believe the Eagles hid this. They would have had him have the surgery if they knew.

 

What it says is the Eagles need better doctors. There have been more than a few complaints about their ineptitude lately.

 

No team would hide a serious health issues like this. So I agree with Cat

 

That's not necessarily true either. In my case, I had a stroke which prompted an in-depth review of my entire vascular system. If he didn't present any symptoms, there would have been no need to go looking for this.

I am somewhat curious though, as to what prompted their search and resulting discovery. Perhaps a nuclear stress test showed some abnormalities?

 

One thing that is hard to find like this is one thing, but former players have complained about the team doctors quite a bit. I forget the details but it wasn't the prettiest.

 

You would be closer to that than me. I'm guessing he took a normal (treadmill) stress test, they found some abnormalities and sent him back in for a nuclear stress test where they inject isotopes into your bloodstream and then radiographically map your cardio vasular system. I can't think of any other reason to look for something like this in an otherwise healthy professional athlete.